For the final release in the first series of Especial, the label takes a detour across the Atlantic to San Francisco and latter-day synth / experimentalists Inhalt for something a bit special. Taking 4 original tracks from their Occupations EP on Dark Entries and commissioning a set remixes that bring them into the label's musical aesthetic. With an EP already on Dark Entries, plus a release included on the inspiring World Unknown label, Occupations showed a progression in Inhalt's music to capture the sound of moderne electronique. Synth / Cold / Dark Wave, whatever the tag, this West Coast trio produce an clean, driven electronic sound of their own, backed with the unique voice of Phillip Winiger. Approached by mutual friend George Thompson aka Black Merlin who, alongside US duo VALIS, had been commissioned to do remixes that were unreleased, Especial jumped at the change to pick up the chalice and pass it to label friends and arc-remixers de jour Timothy J Fairpaly and Scott Fraser. The result is a remix EP that celebrates the ideas of Especial, to take influences of 80s New Wave, Synth Pop, Electro, Proto-House and the occassioanl touch of Disco and mold them in to an up-to-date vision that respects but runs parellel to the modern obsession with all things House and forges it's own way. The "Frankie Says" hymn of Black Merlin's Remix sets the tone beautifully, before swatted by bass electro retake by VALIS, before TJF dons his hip slung bass for another inspired epic, before finally Glasgow's answer to Dopplereffekt, Mr Fraser is all hissing hats and electro beats to close an EP that is aimed at one place - dark dancefloors.